Loosing touch with computers? just me

I haven't got the patience to sit down and work with them anymore. Right next to me I have a Netgear ReadyNAS that I cannot get to work that I've owned since January. I may as well have bought a housebrick for all the good it does, and it would seem from looking a Netgear's forums that there are so many issues with these damned things that I don't even know where to begin to try and diagnose the fault. I rue the day I spent £145 on the NAS enclosure and £76 on a HD for it! I should have just bought a far cheaper USB desktop drive that actually works instead. :(
 
Technology moves so fast that if you don't keep your hand in then after a year or two you are way behind the times. Especially if you don't work with computers beyond a "Load outlook, load excel, browse net" capacity.

There is no cure other than having a genuine interest in technology as a whole. Things from my point of view have got easier than 10-15 years ago with win95/98/XP. IMO if you knew what you were doing back then then you really should know what you are doing now as half the stuff is done for you. Computers now will last your average user 5+ years from new, with an OS like Win7 there is little to go wrong unless the issue is PICNIC.

I'd say I've always maintained a healthy interest and my career is in I.T so it is easy to keep with the times. I must admit that as long as my home equipment does what I want it to do then I'm pretty happy. I don't have a 1.5k rig for example and don't splash out in certain areas of tech where I can get away with it. (Due to cost and time).
 
I seem to go through phases like the OP, then I find myself getting back into it. Just recently I decided I didn't need my watercooled behemoth of a case, and don't game on my PC any more so was going to downsize my current stuff into a smaller case. In the end I decided to sell the lot and build myself a brand-new small form factor system from the ground up, and now I'm right back into 'the game'.

I love my new little system, it's the size of a shoe-box, almost totally silent, but packs a punch with it's i5-760 that I have overclocked to 4.0ghz (in turbo mode). I've just ordered an SSD, and will be getting a midrange ATI 6*** card when they come out.

I'm right back into it again :o
 
Haven't lost it completely but most of the repairs I get done these days are by Dell engineers. I'm not going to fix a PC myself if its covered by warranty.

I do have some of my personal boxes at work which I've put new hdd's in and stuff but they are old boxes anyway so its nothing new.
 
I know what the OP means to a point I get the feeling every now and then.

Whilst Mac's traditionally were easier to use (eg for morons :p) I think Windows 7 has helped enormously in this respect. It's simple, easy to use with low system requirements. Job done. All small things like defragmenting are done automatically etc.
 
I gave up caring about upgrades, so I bought a Mac for work and a PS3 for gaming.

I miss the high res textures and the awesome frame rates with 8x AA, but now that Steam is out on the Mac I have the option to go down that route.. However, I don't.
 
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